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US troops killed in Syria explosion

By Daniel Chaitin
Published January 16, 2019 3:08pm ET
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US troops killed in Syria explosion
This frame grab from video provided by Hawar News, ANHA, the news agency for the semi-autonomous Kurdish areas in Syria, shows a damaged restaurant where an explosion occurred, in Manbij, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Syrian war monitoring group, and a local town council said Wednesday that the explosion took place near a patrol of the U.S.-led coalition and that there are casualties. | (ANHA via AP)

An explosion in Syria killed U.S. troops on Wednesday.

Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State, announced on Twitter that the U.S. service members were killed while conducting a routine patrol.

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